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Father Peter Writes
As I write this month we are in National Marriage Week. Added to that, at the Rectory, we are in anticipation of our elder daughter’s wedding next month and both my parents and Caroline’s parents celebrate their Diamond Wedding Anniversary, that is sixty years of marriage, this year. This is to be quite a year on the wedding front for us.
In times when we hear much about the cost of weddings today and how lavish they can and do become, we need to remember that a marriage is a thing of God. It is a Sacrament of the Church. It is undertaken between a man and a woman and it is a life long commitment. All that goes on around it must not detract from that important understanding.
A Sacrament is, according to the Prayerbook Catechism, an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. As we know there are seven Sacraments of which marriage is one. A Sacrament, something that we can see, touch and appreciate but that speaks to us of God’s powerful and wonderful action with us and in us.
With so many different forms of partnership around now it is very important for the Christian to remember that it is to marriage that we are called. Relationships are never easy and come with their own difficulties at different times. It is through God’s Grace that we survive these difficult times and move on to serve Him in each other. God gives us these things not to limit us but to strengthen us and in strengthening us He strengthens our society.
Wishing you every blessing
Fr Peter Walker
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